Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:24:38 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: danial_thom@yahoo.com Cc: rod person <rodperson@adelphia.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Question's. Message-ID: <200512281024.38359.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <20051227154529.52973.qmail@web33308.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20051227154529.52973.qmail@web33308.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:15 am, Danial Thom wrote: > --- Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> > > wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom > > > > wrote: > > > Schwab Streetsmart > > > Accounting Software (CA) > > > Quicken > > > Photoshop > > > Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs) > > > > > > Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there > > > > are > > > > > some half-assed alternatives for some of > > > > these, > > > > > but if I have to use something inferior to > > > > use > > > > > FreeBSD then thats a point against it. > > > > This is all a question of the applications you > > need. > > My game is full custom integrated circuit > > design and > > suitable CAD software is available, at a price, > > on > > most unix style systems including Solaris, > > HP-UX, > > various Linux distributions and FreeBSD. In > > this > > field it is the Windows half-assed alternatives > > that are distinctly inferior. > > No, its a point of applications that one would > reasonably need to run a business. I can't run a > business from your CAD workstation. I can't live > without accounting software. > > I would hardly call apps such as Cadence > "half-assed", even if you prefer something else. > In fact, Candence runs on Windows, Linux and > Solaris but NOT FreeBSD, and its by far the most > used product the market in that genre. > Cadence have a wide range of products some of which=20 run on Windows platforms. But you will be struggling=20 to do much with Full Custom on XP. There are some alternatives offered on FreeBSD --=20 admittedly inferior to the top Cadence products but also at less than 10% of the licensing costs. I thought the discussion was about desktop software not business software; but even so if your business=20 is IC design then I would think a good CAD suite was=20 pretty essential. Malcolm Kay > DT > > > > __________________________________________ > Yahoo! DSL =96 Something to write home about. > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > dsl.yahoo.com
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